Chapter 64 - Visiting the auction house (1/2)
With the team busy at the dungeon he would at the very least have an hour of free time. It is best if he would use this time to make a few equipment. As he reached the Forging association, he saw that there were some changes to it too.
It evolved from a two-story building to a three-storied one. Even the area occupied by it has also increased. It was obvious that the number of forging rooms would also increase as a result of the upgrade. The association was still congested with all the trade profession players, but it was still better than the situation before the upgrade.
Though a bunch of new players came into the town, they mainly focused on trading new recipes and designs with hardly any trade profession players from guilds. So, the number of trade profession players in the town increased by not enough to fill up the forging association.
He walked past the players waiting for the forging rooms and talked to the receptionist. He asked for the association head Kade and equipped his title Blacksmith Kade's in-name apprentice. She took him past to the third floor. There were no forging rooms on third floor.
Instead there was only a single corridor with two large doors at the left and the right of it and another small door at the end. The nameplate storage was on the left door and cooperative workshop on the right one. The receptionist took him to the door at the end of the corridor with the name, ”Forging association, Blackrock town branch head, Jeremiah Kade.”
She opened the door to inform Kade and a second later opened it to allow Shadow Tyrant inside. ”Ah! Shadow my boy, I have been waiting for you. I hope that you have enough resources to impress me. With the recent developments a lot is being asked of me,” said Kade as he entered the room.
There was the desk with all the designs on it. Right now, he had only refined iron ore, blackrock crystals and cougar fangs. He had no other resources. As he put down the fangs, iron ore and blackrock crystals, the expression on Kade's face plummeted.
”I am disappointed. I had expected more from you,” said Kade picking up the iron ore and blackrock crystals. ”I had hoped that you would be able to gather more than these. Some rare materials from beyond the hills. At least you got a pair of cougar fangs. I could make good use of these,” said Kade as pointed to the desk
”You can check the design on the desk,” said Kade. There weren't many available for the amount of resources he gave. He saw a few designs of level 5 but they weren't any better than the two he had.
There were others but they did not really interest him. He needed better item than iron ore and blackrock crystals for better designs. With nothing else that interested him he just bought another swift dagger for his second hand with coins. He was quite disappointed in himself for failing to get any decent designs.
Looking at his expression, Kade said, ”If you aren't sure that you want these you can gather more resources and come for some other designs. I can give you forging association contribution points in return for these materials you are providing.”
”That would be very helpful, Sir Kade. Thank you,” said Shadow bowing to Kade. It would be a lot more useful in this manner. Forging association contribution points aren't easy to obtain, and they can be used buy designs and even used to rent forging workshops. One usually needs to do some kind of special quest or end up creating a new fine gold equipment to become a significant member of the forging association.
”Being your master and the head here, I can provide you contribution points. But I hope you will improve your talent and manage to gain reputation in the association,” continued Kade. ”I hope you would get better resources for me the next time you come. You can't make good equipment without good resources.”
System: You have been given 120 forging association contribution points by Kade.
”Are there any other quests that would help increase my popularity at forging association or increase my contribution points,” asked Shadow to Kade. Though he boldly asked it, he was afraid that Kade would be upset that he asked for other methods when he already could earn them by helping him. But he hoped that Kade being his master and with the current position he held, could point him towards something he can.
”Hmm, there are a few things that you can help the forging association with. There were a few new requests made to the association to create few items. You can gather the required materials or produce the items,” said Kade. ”But to be able to check them you need to be a bit stronger as a pre-requisite. Come back when you are stronger, and I will suggest something.”
System: Attention! Can only check forging association quests after level 10!!!
With that notification, he understood that he couldn't do anything about it right now. He heard that once a person became an NPCs apprentice, he could get into the respective association of the trade profession. But it looks like there would still be restrictions and the membership of the association is only nominal. He probably had to do few quests to become a true member.
He could go and forge a few equipment in this time, but he did have only the Blackrock crystal and refined iron ores. He hadn't checked the auction house yet and with the knowledge he gained in his previous life, he could use a few more raw materials to create better equips.
With that thought he went into the auction house to check out what the players from other towns brought. Even though most of the materials would be common ones like ores and meat, with the entire light faction there would definitely be a few independent teams and player who would put in materials they obtained in their quests for sale.
He went to the auction house. The auction house would have items for sale throughout the day. One can directly check the interface to make bids. There would be a time limit to make bids and sometimes players could also provide a buyout amount for their items. Players could also put in items in exchange for other specific items.
There would be special auctions held occasionally for very rare items that are given to it. The system decides if the items provided by players are worthy enough for special auction and asks for the player to use item in special auction. The players could accept or deny. But most usually accept as the members attending special auctions tend to be ready to spend more.
Today was the launching day of the game and there would be no special auctions. So, Shadow didn't really have any plans to save any money and began to browse for materials. He couldn't find any materials. It looked like anything that was put for sale were being immediately taken.
The most frequent ones were still refined iron ore and blackrock crystals. It looked like these were still not sufficient for the demand. It made sense too. He only got the large quantity he managed to gain due to him being the first to explore both goblin camp and elite mode of cave of wargs. Else, he would also be fighting for these alongside them.
Though he couldn't get see any rare materials suitable for forging and blacksmithing, he did glimpse a few tools that he could probably use. These were broken tools which usually didn't held much importance at this stage of the game. Though they wouldn't be of much use at this stage nor players would notice it, they could be very useful.
He saw three such tools or items and immediately put bids for them. The first was the explorer's orb which can be used to map the surrounding up to a five kilometer radius two times. Usually when the player explores new places, the map updates around a 30-meter range. He couldn't believe that someone actually put this for sale.
It is an uncommon item found in fae territories. The only drawback with the tool was it wouldn't update the map with the various resources but only provide a terrain of it. It wouldn't even be found in other races. Probably some other race player put it in for the money to buy something else. He directly paid the buyout price of 50 silvers for it and got the orb.